Cultural Pasts : essays in early Indian history /

By:

Romila Thapar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1156 ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780195664874

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DDC classification:

934 R6649 C 102101

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Ubhayabharati General Stacks	Non-fiction	934 R6649 C 102101 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	102101

Cultural Pasts collects essays on a range of subjects in early Indian history. Its focus is on historiography and the changing dimensions of social and cultural history. The essays are divided into nine thematic groups: historiography, both current and from earlier periods; social and cultural transactions; archaeology and history; pre-Mauryan and Mauryan India; forms of exchange; the society of the heroes in the epics and the later tradition of venerating the hero; genealogies and origin myths as historical sources; the social context of the renouncer; and the past in the present--the use of the early past in current ideologies.

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